linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]serial: make early_uart to use early_prarm instead of console

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Message-id: <4651C86E.2040901@sun.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 09:27:26 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]serial: make early_uart to use early_prarm instead of
 console_initcall

Andi Kleen wrote:
> It is someone's reimplemention of earlyprintk= for another architecture
> that happens to mostly work on x86 too because the code is not ifdeffed. 
> I don't think it makes much sense on x86 though because earlyprintk exists.

Andi,

Bjorn refer to your early_printk to implement early_uart for ia64 platform. code is almost identical, but it could take
mmio,0xfe00000,9600n8 etc. or say mmio type serial card.

YH
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